Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-adds-undercover-mode-to-impersonate-windows-10/

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Is oh-my-zsh safe?

Hello folks,

I have kinda unsual question.

How much is oh-my-zsh safe, yes basicly it is just bunch of tweaks to standard zsh and some other things. So question is can we really trust to oh-my-zsh team, is it safe to deploy it and what are your opinion to this?

Thanks for any answers

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Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-pi-4/

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Some tips for using shell short-cuts
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20191202#qa

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - December 02, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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Bliss OS 12 Allow Users to Run Android 10 on Linux or Windows 10 PC
https://techdator.net/bliss-os-12-allow-users-to-run-android-10-on-linux-or-windows-10-pc/

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LUKS unlock with TPM2 - A guide with noscripts

[I created a detailed walkthrough](https://github.com/anguianoewi/tpm2KeyUnlock) complete with instructions to fight issues I had during installation.

Over thanksgiving vacation, I spent a couple all-nighters setting up TPM2 unlock on my computer. After looking for different solutions, [This article for TPM2 unlock](https://threat.tevora.com/secure-boot-tpm-2/) seemed to be the most convenient and transparent for me. However, the article is outdated and the tools have been updated, so the information is more of a proof-of-concept rather than implementation.

The process should take no more than 20 minutes, and so far I have managed to recreate it with the included noscripts in less than 10 minutes.

There are a couple issues I still have to work on with the noscripts. The manual walkthrough itself works fine. The rest of the issues are listed in the readme.

If there are any issues with the process, I would appreciate issue tickets so I can work on them. Of course, if anyone is willing to help contribute, I would be more than thankful.

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Fedora 31 Review – Lords Of Tech
https://lordsof.tech/open-source/fedora-31-review/

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Cockpit 208 — Cockpit Project
https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-208.html

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Netdata release v1.19

Hey all,

Introducing a major rewrite of our web log collector, [cmocka](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cmocka?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) unit testing, improvements on our [Unbound](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/unbound?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) collector and even more! Check out our blog post for full details or read our release notes below.

Release v1.19.0 contains 2 new collectors, 19 bug fixes, 17 improvements, and 19 documentation updates. Full release notes can be found [here](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.19.0).

**At a glance**

We completed a major rewrite of our web log collector to dramatically improve its flexibility and performance. The [new collector](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/141), written entirely in Go, can parse and chart logs from Nginx and Apache servers, and combines numerous improvements. Netdata now supports the LTSV log format, creates charts for TLS and cipher usage, and is amazingly fast. In a test using SSD storage, the collector parsed the logs for 200,000 requests in about 200ms, using 30% of a single core.

This Go-based collector also has powerful custom log parsing capabilities, which means we're one step closer to a generic application log parser for Netdata. We're continuing to work on this parser to support more application log formatting in the future.

We have a new tutorial on [enabling the Go web log collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs/) and using it with Nginx and/or Apache access logs with minimal configuration. Thanks to [Wing924](https://github.com/Wing924) for starting the Go rewrite!

We introduced more **cmocka unit testing** to Netdata. In this release, we're testing how Netdata's internal web server processes HTTP requests—the first step to improve the quality of code throughout, reduce bugs, and make refactoring easier. We wanted to validate the web server's behavior but needed to build a layer of parametric testing on top of the CMocka test runner. Read all about our process of testing and selecting cmocka on our blog post: [Building an agile team's 'safety harness' with cmocka and FOSS](https://blog.netdata.cloud/agile-team-cmocka-foss/).

Netdata's **Unbound collector** was also [completely rewritten in Go](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287) to improve how it collects and displays metrics. This new version can get dozens of metrics, including details on queries, cache, uptime, and even show per-thread metrics. See our [tutorial](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-unbound-metrics/) on enabling the new collector via Netdata's amazing auto-detection feature.

We [fixed an error](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7220) where **invalid spikes** appeared on certain charts by improving the incremental counter reset/wraparound detection algorithm.

Netdata can now send [**health alarm notifications to IRC channels**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/notifications/irc/) thanks to [Strykar](https://github.com/Strykar)!

And, Netdata can now monitor [**AM2320 sensors**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/python.d.plugin/am2320/), thanks to hard work from [Tom Buck](https://github.com/tommybuck).

**Improvements**

* **New Collectors**
* AM2320 sensor collector plugin

* Added parsing of /proc/pagetypeinfo to provide metrics on fragmentation of free memory pages
* The unbound collector module was completely rewritten, in Go [go.d.plugin/#287](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287)

**Collector improvements**

* **We rewrote our web log parser in Go, drastically improving its flexibility and performance**
* The [Kubernetes kubelet collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/k8s_kubelet/) now reads the service account token and uses it for authorization. We also added a new default job to collect metrics from https://localhost:10250/metrics
* Added a new default job to the [Kubernetes coredns](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/coredns/) collector to collect metrics from [http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics](http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics)
* apps.plugin: Synced FRRouting daemons configuration with the frr 7.2 release
* apps.plugin: Added process group for git-related processes-apps.plugin: Added balena to the container-engines application group
* web\_log: Treat 401 Unauthorized requests as successful
* xenstat.plugin: Prepare for xen 4.13 by checking for check xenstat\_vbd\_errorpresence
* mysql: Added galera cluster\_statusalarm
* **Metrics Database**
* Netdata generates alarms if the disk cannot keep up with data collection
* **Health**
* Fine tune various default alarm configurations
* Update SYN cookie alarm to be less aggressive
* Added support for IRC alarm notifications
* **Installation/Packages**
* Corrected the Makefile.am files indentation, to prevent unexpected errors
* Rationalized ownership and permissions of /etc/netdata
* Made various improvements to the installer noscript netdata-installer.sh
* Include go.d.plugin version v0.11.0
* **Other**
* Improve Travis build warnings
* cmocka testing for http requests
* CI/CD: Prevented nightly jobs from timing out

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cron.weekly is back

For those not aware, [cron.weekly](https://ma.ttias.be/cron-weekly-is-coming-back/) was, well now is again a weekly newsletter covering various linux topics distributed VIA email.

For those learning linux I suggest you check this newsletter out.

[Archive](https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/) going back to 2015.

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PinePhone: Everything you need to know about the $150 Linux-powered phone
https://www.androidauthority.com/pine64-pinephone-1053395/

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This week in KISS (#3) | KISS Linux
https://getkiss.org/blog/20191202a

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Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/librem-5-backers-receiving-their-linux-phones/

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Purism Releases Hardware Schematics for Librem 5 Linux Phone

https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/

What do you think? How momentous is this? Is this the start of a new era for smartphones? What do you think of Purism’s design? Why are they having issues with heat? What will it take to fix it?

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Tool: I wrote a realtime regex extractor and data-aggregator

This is a bit of a x-post from /r/golang, but I thought folks here might find use for this.

I wanted to share a tool I wrote recently which was driven partly because of some technical issues I've faced recently (Lots of large-scale log parsing), and some frustration with existing tools in my toolkit. I ended up writing a small go cli app to run a regex and extract/summarize data in various formats (histogram, table, numerical summary, etc) in a performant way. This solved the problem of getting incremental output while parsing the files, along with an easy to learn syntax for aggregating the data (as long as your pretty good at regex..)

Here's a moderately complex example of parsing a nginx access log. There are three parts in this example: -m
the match extractor (regex), -e the key expression and -i to ignore a truthy expression. The below example gets all the paths and their statuses, ignoring 200, and outputs the results.

$ rare histo -m '"(\w{3,4}) ([A-Za-z/.]+).*" (\d{3})' -e '{3} {1} {2}' -i '{eq {3} 200}' -b access.log
404 GET /robots.txt 728 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
404 GET /favicon.ico 109 |||||||
304 GET / 52 |||
301 GET /mirror 11
403 GET /mirror/distros/cup/ 7

Matched: 941 / 161,622 (Ignored: 160,681)
Groups: 23

There's a lot of features (gunzip, json, asthmatic, etc), but I don't want to bloat this post, so check the links below.

I'm posting here for two reasons. 1) I'm hoping that someone will see this and find it helpful or useful and 2) I'm not a go expert by any stretch, and am definitely open to language or functional input!

I've spent a lot of time optimizing the performance characteristics of the program to be comparable to other similar applications (Learned a lot about go's pprof along the way). I also tried to bundle it up in all the popular formats (deb, rpm, tar, homebrew)

Always happy to hear feedback!

Github: [https://github.com/zix99/rare](https://github.com/zix99/rare)
Post (With lots of examples): [https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html](https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html)

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Going back to Windows is not an option! A month into my switch to Manjaro KDE

I have my machine dual-booted but I haven't gone back to the Windows installation. I don't want to. I will put up with any of the glitches and bugs with the Nvidia drivers and such. I haven't got much to say; I could go into a rant about how much I hate Windows and never realized it but, that would make this post be a novel and I think that it is very well covered on this sub. I will just say that every time that I have to use Windows (like at school or in a VM for my 3D printers software) it just feels so clunky. The customization; wow the customization it's endless. I love it! It is awesome.

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Awesome Make
https://github.com/adelarsq/awesome-make

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Beta testers wanted for harmony - Voice chat using Opus over WebRTC and Go

I'm working on a Discord alternative called [harmony](https://git.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony). The initial proof of concept works! I'm hoping to find a few testers to run the initial release on their server (and hopefully share it with a few friends) and provide feedback.

A server exposes a web interface utilizing WebSockets and WebRTC. A native client is planned for desktop and mobile.

Please reply or send a message if you're interested in running a server. I hope to have the first release ready within the next week.

If you have any issues or suggestions feel free to share them [here](https://todo.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony).

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Disney plus working

Just tried Disney plus on Firefox. Seems to be working. Anyone els have any luck?

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